Georgia Democrats have long seen gun restrictions as an answer to curbing gun violence, but as the minority party, their legislation has had nearly no impact. State Rep. Michelle Au said she applauds ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A day after Georgia Republican House Speaker Jon Burns unveiled school safety legislation, Democrats and ...

Plenty of barbs come from across the aisle, but we need more of the healthy intraparty criticism and conflict that allows the refining work of friction to reinvigorate our parties. We need a ...

Applications are way up and pipeline of diverse new officers signals positive trajectory for police force following years of ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a statewide State of Emergency on Monday ahead of a winter storm that will move through parts of the state on Tuesday. Dozens of counties are under a winter storm ...

Gov. Brian Kemp (R) holds a 6-point lead over Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) in a hypothetical match-up for the 2026 Georgia Senate race, according to an internal poll released Thursday by the ...

A Republican Georgia state senator has been arrested after trying to enter the state House chamber even though he had been banned from the area. Police pushed state Sen. Colton Moore to the ground ...

Brian Kemp in the House chamber. He said he met with Burns on Wednesday ... for an election-related protest in the Georgia Capitol. Police arrested state Rep. Park Cannon in 2021 after she knocked on ...

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GRAY, Ga. — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is still working to curb the effects of inflation. In his 2025 State of the State address, he announced plans to roll back Georgia's income tax rate.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (L) in Atlanta on November 7, 2022. Sen. Jon Ossoff (R) in Conyers on December 5, 2020. A new poll showed Ossoff trailing Kemp in the 2026 Georgia Senate race. Georgia Gov.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp delivered his State of the State address on Thursday. Kemp wants to again speed up state income tax cuts. Kemp used the speech to promise full recovery from Hurricane ...